[SDL] Can´t link my project against SDL

Peter Mulholland darkmatter at freeuk.com
Tue Oct 3 00:54:17 PDT 2006


Hello Michael,

Tuesday, October 3, 2006, 1:10:05 AM, you wrote:

> Hi,

> I started a project using SDL, but unfortunately I couldn´t get it to 
> link with MSVC .NET 2005
> I linked againsat both SDL.lib and SDLMain.lib but I get a linker error
> that the "entry point has to be specified".
> So it means it can´t find an entry point, but I do have a main method.
> The project compiles fine until I include the SDL headers.
> Could somebody tell me where the error is? Thanks in advance :)

You have used the wrong project type. You should use "Win32
Application" (which expects a WinMain() provided by SDLmain.lib), not
"Win32 Console Application".

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 Peter                            mailto:darkmatter at freeuk.com





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